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Night time semantic segmentation is a crucial task in computer vision, focusing on accurately classifying and segmenting objects in low-light conditions. Unlike daytime techniques, which often perform worse in nighttime scenes, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Sarah Elmahdy , Rodaina Hebishy , Ali Hamdi

We present a learning-based technique for estimating high dynamic range (HDR), omnidirectional illumination from a single low dynamic range (LDR) portrait image captured under arbitrary indoor or outdoor lighting conditions. We train our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Chloe LeGendre , Wan-Chun Ma , Rohit Pandey , Sean Fanello , Christoph Rhemann , Jason Dourgarian , Jay Busch , Paul Debevec

Accurately estimating scene lighting is critical for applications such as mixed reality. Existing works estimate illumination by generating illumination maps or regressing illumination parameters. However, the method of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Xinlong Ji , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu , Shi-Sheng Huang , Hua Huang

Motion segmentation in dynamic scenes is highly challenging, as conventional methods heavily rely on estimating camera poses and point correspondences from inherently noisy motion cues. Existing statistical inference or iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Xiankang He , Peile Lin , Ying Cui , Dongyan Guo , Chunhua Shen , Xiaoqin Zhang

Reconstructing an object from photos and placing it virtually in a new environment goes beyond the standard novel view synthesis task as the appearance of the object has to not only adapt to the novel viewpoint but also to the new lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Benjamin Ummenhofer , Sanskar Agrawal , Rene Sepulveda , Yixing Lao , Kai Zhang , Tianhang Cheng , Stephan Richter , Shenlong Wang , German Ros

We present Lighting in Motion (LiMo), a diffusion-based approach to spatiotemporal lighting estimation. LiMo targets both realistic high-frequency detail prediction and accurate illuminance estimation. To account for both, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Christophe Bolduc , Julien Philip , Li Ma , Mingming He , Paul Debevec , Jean-François Lalonde

Manipulating the light source of given images is an interesting task and useful in various applications, including photography and cinematography. Existing methods usually require additional information like the geometric structure of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Li-Wen Wang , Wan-Chi Siu , Zhi-Song Liu , Chu-Tak Li , Daniel P. K. Lun

This paper presents a process for estimating the spatially varying surface reflectance of complex scenes observed under natural illumination. In contrast to previous methods, our process is not limited to scenes viewed under controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Alen Joy , Charalambos Poullis

We introduce GS-Light, an efficient, textual position-aware pipeline for text-guided relighting of 3D scenes represented via Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). GS-Light implements a training-free extension of a single-input diffusion model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiangnan Ye , Jiedong Zhuang , Lianrui Mu , Wenjie Zheng , Jiaqi Hu , Xingze Zou , Jing Wang , Haoji Hu

Multi-view image generation holds significant application value in computer vision, particularly in domains like 3D reconstruction, virtual reality, and augmented reality. Most existing methods, which rely on extending single images, face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Jiaqi Wu , Yaosen Chen , Shuyuan Zhu

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has shown impressive results for the novel view synthesis task, where lighting is assumed to be fixed. However, creating relightable 3D assets, especially for objects with ill-defined shapes (fur, fabric, etc.),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Jiahui Fan , Fujun Luan , Jian Yang , Miloš Hašan , Beibei Wang

In this paper, we propose the first framework that leverages physically-based inverse rendering for novel lighting generation on existing real-world human demonstrations of robotic manipulation tasks. Specifically, inverse rendering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Shutong Jin , Lezhong Wang , Ben Temming , Florian T. Pokorny

The image relighting task of transferring illumination conditions between two images offers an interesting and difficult challenge with potential applications in photography, cinematography and computer graphics. In this report we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Alexandre Pierre Dherse , Martin Nicolas Everaert , Jakub Jan Gwizdała

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly improved image editing. However, challenges persist in handling geometric transformations, such as translation, rotation, and scaling, particularly in complex scenes. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Shuo Zhang , Wenzhuo Wu , Huayu Zhang , Jiarong Cheng , Xianghao Zang , Chao Ban , Hao Sun , Zhongjiang He , Tianwei Cao , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

We present LightMover, a framework for controllable light manipulation in single images that leverages video diffusion priors to produce physically plausible illumination changes without re-rendering the scene. We formulate light editing as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gengze Zhou , Tianyu Wang , Soo Ye Kim , Zhixin Shu , Xin Yu , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Sumit Chaturvedi , Qi Wu , Zhe Lin , Scott Cohen

Low-light image enhancement is generally regarded as a challenging task in image processing, especially for the complex visual tasks at night or weakly illuminated. In order to reduce the blurs or noises on the low-light images, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-17 Yangming Shi , Xiaopo Wu , Ming Zhu

Universal Photometric Stereo is a promising approach for recovering surface normals without strict lighting assumptions. However, it struggles when multi-illumination cues are unreliable, such as under biased lighting or in shadows or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 King-Man Tam , Satoshi Ikehata , Yuta Asano , Zhaoyi An , Rei Kawakami

Pre-trained Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) have recently shown strong perceptual priors for low-level vision tasks, making them a promising direction for multi-exposure High Dynamic Range (HDR) reconstruction. However, directly applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Tao Hu , Weiyu Zhou , Yanjie Tu , Peng Wu , Wei Dong , Qingsen Yan , Yanning Zhang

Humans have the remarkable ability to construct consistent mental models of an environment, even under limited or varying levels of illumination. We wish to endow robots with this same capability. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Tianyi Zhang , Kaining Huang , Weiming Zhi , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Inverse path tracing has recently been applied to joint material and lighting estimation, given geometry and multi-view HDR observations of an indoor scene. However, it has two major limitations: path tracing is expensive to compute, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Liwen Wu , Rui Zhu , Mustafa B. Yaldiz , Yinhao Zhu , Hong Cai , Janarbek Matai , Fatih Porikli , Tzu-Mao Li , Manmohan Chandraker , Ravi Ramamoorthi